Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

Love Your Food^® is a unique, non-dieting, psychotherapeutic weight control program in which clients learn to:

• Relax over their food!
• Enjoy food more!
• Feel fully satisfied with less

Focused stress management and safe, enjoyable exercise are other key components of the program.

Love Your Food^® is pleasure-oriented. It does not include a rigid diet, self-denial, public weigh-ins and other forms of deprivation and humiliation.

As opposed to other programs which tell participants exactly what to eat (and even sell them packaged foods) the objective of Love Your Food^® is to make clients self-regulating.

Clients actually go out to restaurants for delicious meals at which they learn a new way of eating which they can use for a lifetime.

There are no pills, no strict calorie counting and no forbidden foods!

Love Your Food^® addresses both the causes and symptoms of compulsive overeating. The causes, which may include depression, anxiety or ineffectively handled stress, are treated with focused stress management or psychotherapy. The symptoms, including the habit of eating compulsively and excessively, are extinguished as the client learns a more pleasurable and satisfying way of eating.

The program includes individual and group sessions so that clients can benefit from one-on-one work as well as from group interactions and support.

Because clients are coached in new techniques for enjoying their food and managing stress, the time frame and intensity of the program can vary with the individual rate of learning. On average, though, sessions are held weekly for the first three months and less often for three addional months. Thereafter, occasional consultative sessions may be held as needed.

This again can vary depending on whether insurance is applicable. A sliding scale is available so that the program is affordable to most people.

Because Love Your Food^® is a unique, individualized psychotherapeutic program, its price may not be comparable to that of standardized diet plans.

Love Your Food^® was developed by Arlene B. Englander, LCSW, MBA, PA, a licensed psychotherapist for twenty years. Ms. Englander, a Columbia graduate, has created health promotion programs for hospitals, corporations and law firms, while on staff at settings as diverse as Cancer Care, Inc., and American Express, and T.R.S. She is a former Director of Community Education for the Holliswood Hospital in New York City, a psychiatric facility with an esteemed eating disorders unit. Ms. Englander is, herself, a former compulsive over-eater.